Introduction
Max Verstappen accomplished a clear sweep of pole positions and race wins on the 2023 Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix with one other dominant show in Sunday’s fundamental occasion, main residence Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc and Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez.
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Despite an action-packed encounter on the Red Bull Ring that noticed a number of drivers penalised over observe limits and techniques differ – Verstappen considered one of few drivers to remain out throughout an early Virtual Safety Car interval – the Dutchman couldn’t be stopped en path to his fifth win on the bounce, and seventh of the season.
Leclerc briefly led the best way after making the most of the VSC, however he fell again behind Verstappen because the pair labored by their opposing tyre plans, and the Red Bull confirmed its uncooked tempo – underlined by a late and profitable bid for the quickest lap bonus level.
Perez delivered a high-quality restoration from fifteenth on the grid to finish a troublesome run and take his first podium because the Miami Grand Prix 4 races in the past, overhauling Carlos Sainz within the closing levels and benefiting from the Ferrari driver’s time penalty for observe limits.
Lando Norris capped off his and McLaren’s encouraging weekend with their batch of upgrades en path to fifth, beating the Aston Martin of Fernando Alonso and the Mercedes machines of Lewis Hamilton – one other to be penalised – and George Russell to the road.
Pierre Gasly navigated his personal five-second penalty to provide Alpine a few factors within the ninth, with the opposite Aston Martin of Lance Stroll passing Williams rival Alex Albon – additionally penalised – late on for the ultimate level on supply.
A time penalty for an unsafe launch left Esteban Ocon twelfth within the second of the Alpine vehicles, with Williams rookie Logan Sargeant – one more to fall foul of observe limits – coming residence in thirteenth as his anticipate a maiden F1 level continues.
Alfa Romeo had a quiet race, as Zhou Guanyu and Valtteri Bottas completed 14th and sixteenth, respectively, sandwiching the AlphaTauri of Nyck de Vries, who was docked 5 seconds for forcing Haas driver Kevin Magnussen off observe.
Oscar Piastri’s race was hindered by contact and the necessity for a alternative entrance wing, that means the McLaren man got here residence again in seventeenth, adopted by Yuki Tsunoda, who picked up harm on the primary lap and ran off the observe in his AlphaTauri, earlier than being hit with two penalties for observe limits.
Haas’ sturdy begin to the occasion ended with the frustration of P19 for Magnussen – making his a hundred and fiftieth Grand Prix begin – and retirement for Nico Hulkenberg, whose lack of energy compelled him to park along with the observe, triggering the aforementioned VSC.
Mario Isola, Motorsport Director, Pirelli:
One driver dominated this Grand Prix from begin to end, however there was loads of pleasure within the battles between the 19 others. From our standpoint, all the pieces went nicely. Our simulations going into this race had been confirmed on observe in all of the altering situations we skilled from Friday by to immediately. We knew the Soft wouldn’t be an acceptable race tyre, however each Medium and Hard allowed these behind the wheel to push and assault when mandatory, exhibiting a enough differential in degradation between them with out struggling any extreme overheating. In phrases of technique, too, the race went to plan. The VSC on lap 15 didn’t affect the variety of stops, however it did open up various selections when it comes to selecting the window for the primary pit cease. The prime 4 finishers went for 2 Medium stints and one Hard if we ignore Verstappen’s closing cease, which isn’t related to this evaluation, whereas those that from Friday had most well-liked to maintain two units of C3 primarily opted to make use of each together with a set of Mediums.
How the race was gained from the tyre standpoint:
Max Verstappen topped each single outcomes sheet from the Austrian Grand Prix weekend, selecting up the utmost 34 factors on this ninth spherical of the World Championship. The Dutchman permitted himself the posh of an unplanned pit cease with simply two laps remaining to safe the additional level for the race’s quickest lap. Today, Sergio Perez made his second look of the weekend on the rostrum, with a high-quality cost by the sector to complete third after his second-place end yesterday. Scuderia Ferrari drivers additionally visited the rostrum twice, with Carlos Sainz third in yesterday’s brief race and Charles Leclerc taking the runner-up spot this afternoon to safe his second podium end of the season. It was additionally the 800th time {that a} Ferrari driver had stood on an F1 podium.
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The race was run on a dry observe, and the temperatures had been barely decrease than on Friday afternoon, with the air at 24 °C and the observe at 32 °C. The methods adopted matched yesterday’s predictions. The Soft (C5) was hardly used in any respect, apart from Verstappen’s closing assault on the quickest race lap. The kilometres accomplished had been thus pretty equally divided between the Hard (C3,) 54.55% of the whole laps accomplished and the Medium (C4), 45.3%.
Predictions referring to the variety of stops and their home windows of operation had been additionally confirmed, with a two-stop proving to be the quickest technique, particularly for these operating two units of Medium and considered one of Hard.
The longest stint was 36 laps from Kevin Magnussen on the Hard, whereas Nyck De Vries did probably the most (33) on the Medium.
This was Red Bull’s one hundredth win from 355 Grand Prix begins. Its first dates again to 19 April 2009 when Sebastian Vettel gained in China. Red Bull is the fifth staff to have reached a century of wins in a class headed by Ferrari (242), adopted by McLaren (183), Mercedes (125) and Williams (114).
Of the highest ten finishers, six drivers stopped twice, with solely 4 making simply the one-stop. However, it’s value noting that Perez’s second pit cease, simply two laps from the top, was carried out purely to permit him to select up the additional level for setting the quickest race lap.
16 drivers opted to start out on the Mediums: three of the remaining 4 – Perez, Bottas and Magnussen – selected the Hard tyre, whereas solely Gasly most well-liked to start out on the Softs. As anticipated, the C5 was the least used compound within the race, finishing simply 12 laps: ten of these had been in Gasly’s first stint and two with Perez on the finish of the race.
The most used compound was the C3 (70.4% of all laps accomplished), however a big variety of laps (28.7%) had been run on the C4. In phrases of stint size, the standout efficiency got here from Albon, who isn’t any stranger to this feat, operating 58 laps on a set of Hards. He completed in a formidable seventh place. Leclerc drove the longest stint on Medium tyres doing 39 laps.
What’s subsequent?
Next weekend, Formula 1 strikes to Silverstone, one of the historic venues on the calendar, having hosted 57 Grands Prix since 1950. The Silverstone observe is among the most demanding for tyres, and for the British Grand Prix, from 7 to 9 July, groups will use the C1 compound as P Zero White exhausting, C2 as P Zero Yellow medium and C3 as P Zero Red tender. Pirelli stays on on the Northamptonshire circuit on Tuesday, 11 and Wednesday, 12 July, for 2 days of testing slick tyres with out the usage of heating blankets. Taking half shall be Red Bull, Haas and Williams.
2023 Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix Race Results
| Pos | No | Driver | Country | Team | Time | Points | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 1 | Max Verstappen | Netherlands | Red Bull Racing | 1:25:33.607 | 26 | 229 |
| 2. | 16 | Charles Leclerc | Monaco | Scuderia Ferrari | +5.155s | 18 | 72 |
| 3. | 11 | Sergio Perez | Mexico | Red Bull Racing | +17.188s | 15 | 148 |
| 4. | 55 | Carlos Sainz | Spain | Scuderia Ferrari | +21.377s | 12 | 86 |
| 5. | 4 | Lando Norris | Great Britain | Mclaren Racing | +26.327s | 10 | 22 |
| 6. | 14 | Fernando Alonso | Spain | Aston Martin F1 Team | +30.317s | 8 | 129 |
| 7. | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Great Britain | Mercedes-AMG Petronas | +39.196s | 6 | 108 |
| 8. | 63 | George Russell | Great Britain | Mercedes-AMG Petronas | +48.403s | 4 | 70 |
| 9. | 10 | Pierre Gasly | France | Alpine F1 Team | +57.667s | 2 | 17 |
| 10. | 18 | Lance Stroll | Canada | Aston Martin F1 Team | +59.043s | 1 | 43 |
| 11. | 45 | Alexander Albon | Thailand | Williams Racing | +69.767s | 0 | 7 |
| 12. | 31 | Esteban Ocon | France | Alpine F1 Team | +1 lap | 0 | 31 |
| 13. | 2 | Logan Sargeant | USA | Williams Racing | +1 lap | 0 | 0 |
| 14. | 24 | Zhou Guanyu | China | Alfa Romeo F1 Team | +1 lap | 0 | 4 |
| 15. | 21 | Nyck De Vries | Netherlands | Scuderia AlphaTauri | +1 lap | 0 | 0 |
| 16. | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Finland | Alfa Romeo F1 Team | +1 lap | 0 | 5 |
| 17. | 81 | Oscar Piastri | Australia | McLaren Racing | +1 lap | 0 | 5 |
| 18. | 22 | Yuki Tsunoda | Japan | Scuderia AlphaTauri | +1 lap | 0 | 2 |
| 19. | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | Denmark | Haas F1 Team | +1 lap | 0 | 2 |
| 20. | 27 | Nico Hulkenberg | Germany | Haas F1 Team | DNF | 0 | 9 |
2023 Constructor Standings
Here are the team-by-team highlights:
